Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processsor RAS

Moore’s law has provided system architects with an ever increasing transistor budget. Most of the headline news for a new processor release talk about how these transistors are used to increase the number of cores, amount of cache and other performance related features. This talk will describe how some of those transistors are used to provide RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) features that were previously only present on custom built systems.